![]() ![]() The chapters in this book are definitely interrelated, but each one represents one particular episode out of the Austins’ lives. It is only when they must face the possibility that Maggy might return to her surviving blood relatives that they realize how much a member of the family she really has become. ![]() ![]() Maggy is a brat when she arrives, and it takes the family a while to warm up to her. The lives of the four Austin kids - John, Vicky, Suzy, and Rob - are upset when their uncle and his co-pilot are killed in a crash, and the co-pilot’s daughter, Maggy, comes to live with the Austins. While I associate L’Engle with science fiction, this first novel about the Austins is completely realistic. After reading Meet the Austins, I’m really looking forward to the rest. This means, when I do finally finish this task, I will have read Meet the Austins, A Wrinkle In Time, The Moon By Night, The Arm of the Starfish, The Young Unicorns, A Wind in the Door, Dragons in the Waters, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, A Ring of Endless Light, A House Like a Lotus, Many Waters, An Acceptable Time, and Troubling a Star. I’ve decided that the best way to remedy this situation is to read the interconnected Murray-O’Keefe and Austin novels in the order in which they were published. I have read several Madeleine L’Engle novels as an adult, but I’ve never made my way through the entirety of any of her series. ![]()
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